Descriptions for JetBrains PhpStorm 2017.2.1

Overview

A PHP, HTML and JavaScript editor with reliable code analysis, automatic refactoring for PHP and JavaScript code, and error prevention

PhpStorm is a versatile and cross-platform PHP IDE that comes with a state of the art editor for PHP, HTML and JavaScript, as well as a wide assortment of inbuilt tools and features designed to make PHP development a walk in the park.

Advanced PHP editor and reliable development environment

The built-in smart PHP editor that is compatible with modern and legacy versions of PHP, and that also features code auto-completion, on-the-fly error prevention, refactorings and support for language mixtures.

A large number of inspections ensure the quality of your code as you type by constantly analyzing the entire project.

The editor is accompanied by PHPDoc support, code arranger and re-arranger, PHP code sniffer and mess detector, quick fixes, code formatter and other features that will keep your code clean and valid.

Code completion and formatting capabilities

Moreover, the Code formatter offers code style configuration and other features that enable you to write easy to support code. You can take advantage of the built-in PSR1 and PSR2, Symfony2, Drupal, Zend and other standards compliant code formatting.

What is more, PhpStorm makes it easy for you to take care of various routine tasks directly from within the IDE thanks to the local history, Version Control Systems integration, support for remote deployment, command-line tools, SQL and databases, Composer, Vagrant, PHP UML, built-in REST client, SSH console and more.

Reliable visual debugger and remote debugging options

PhpStorm also features support for PHPunit, a fact that enables you to develop and run unit tests right from the IDE. Among its advanced front-end technologies, we could mention CSS, HTML5, SCSS, Sass, Less, Compass, Stylus, CoffeScript, Jade, ECMAScript, TypeScript, JavaScript and Emmet, along with refactorings, unit testing and debugging.

The HTML/CSS/JavaScript editor comes with live editing preview that makes it possible to see the performed changes in real time in the browser. On top of this, PhpStorm automatically saves your changes and the browser smartly updates the pages as you write.

In a nutshell, PhpStorm is one of those apps that will make you ask yourself how have you been able to develop PHP projects before installing it.

What’s New JetBrains PhpStorm 2017.2.1

The most important bug fixes are:

・Undefined field: a field is shown as dynamically declared in case the field declared in a parent class (WI-36285) ・The crash issue that occurred due to using custom fonts (JRE-426) ・Wrong HiDPI scaling on multiple monitors for Windows 10 (JRE-427 and JRE-431) ・Javascript: Shorthand property inline adds no key (WEB-22611) ・Emmet in JSX, support non-self closing tags for host components (WEB-26468)

Bug:

・WI-36285 — Undefined field: a field is shown as dynamically declared in case the field declared in a parent class ・WI-37303 — Class properties with the same name hides class constants from autocompletion ・WI-37460 — Blade: @php directive with expression causes "Directive is not closed" ・WI-37477 — Blade: @php directive with expression formatting issue